1979_01 The Daily Collegian January 1979 Reloaded

              The Daily Collegian
January », 1979
Commentary
Fresno North Forty
Of New York, penguins and personality
By KELLY LEWIS
There's New York Magazine And there's the New
Yorker When will the New Yorkest come out?
Words that are fun to say ISOPROPYL INTIMACY
DEFUNCT
Openings-grand and otherwise The Peppermill, a
strange mixture of Denny's design, Angus elegance, and
Pardini prices, complete with an orange (yes, orange)
cocktail lounge (which means "bar", for those of you from
Clovis) Instead of a fireplace, the Peppermill has a liquid
orange infemo-complete with flame—babbling in a
sunken, circular pit and surrounded by couches, orange of
course If you got any class, fella, you'll order something
orange to drink Screwdriver's, perhaps. Or Covoirsier
Or maybe they'll get'Oranjeboom beer from the land of
the tulips. If the owners are named William and Mary,
Mle;
.ypeel
AND there's Birdie McTweets downtown Birdie's is
part disco, part pub and 85% polyester There's even a
dress code, you slobs The location and dress code are
hints that the MCTweeters don't plan to rely on the college crowd for business Just as well-it's a long way from
North Fresno to downtown, but just a short jurnp from the
bandwagon to the gutter
Soon there will be the Kenwood Depot on Shaw and
Marks. I haven't been invited to the gran opening next
week, sot'hell with 'em.
Nicola's, on Shields and Van Ness, has been redecorated and is a better place"for it. The food is Creat-as well
as Expensive-and the wine list is the second best in town
(just behind Stanley's). And they don't care what you
The Ramada Inn is about to tear out its dining room in
favor of a disco. They'll keep the coffee shop-which
gets all the food biz anyway-and juice up its menu a bit
with selections from the ex-dining room's faire Or is that
-fare?'
Penguins mate for life. If the partner dies, its mate remains single for the rest of his or her formal existence
Certainly you read Walter Scott's "Personality Parade'
on page 1 of Parade Magazine ever Sunday I do, too
Doesn't everybody? My Question is, why don't we just
read the National Enquirer and get it over with? Why is
Parade somehow more respectable just because it comes
with the Sunday paper? Publicity agencies feed Walter
Scott big bucks to mention various of their clients, even if
it is in answer to a question Scott makes up himself No,
Betti Bigboob does not date Henry Kissinger, but she's
See page 6
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9%euisiieo
gled in the plot as it develops. In the TV
show-which may develop into a mini-
series-he has been transformed into a
top-class secret agent.
Mandrake gets to keep his African
prince side-kick Lothar (admirably portrayed by Ji-Tu Criffn-h) on TV, but his
paramour Princess Narda has been exchanged for a friendly blonde assistant
named Stacy, and he's lost his top hat,
cape and (horrors f) moustache. The
"new" show looks like Bill Bixby's The
Magician with a few thousand dollars
worth of special effects
Television has reduced the 'comic
book mentality" to a lower common denominator than existed during the late
50s--the "pablum years." The producers would have done better to stick
closer to the original material.
-Bruce Scott
(NEXT: The'New'Season.) (~'
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Movie Reviews       v
'Son of Rocky *; 'the industry's worst9
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THE POINT MAN
A significant appointment?
MIKE FITZGERALD
Once upon a time, the office of 'Special Assistant to the
President' was filled, by all accounts, by a cipher, that is, a man
of no importance who served no function
The story is told of how the previous Special Assistant to the
President sent out a fund-raising brochure featuring a prominent picture of ex-CSUF enologist Sigmund Schanderl holding a
glass of CSUF-made wine, obviously intending to let the community know we had an enology program worth supporting-just
after Schanderl had been publicly fired for alleged dishonesty
and fraud!
Upon learning of this gaffe, a fellow administrator went to the
Special Assistant's office and asked him how Schanderl, whose
controversial firing generated reams of unwanted negative publicity, could be featured in a University fund-raising pamphlet,
especially when he no longer worked for the University.
'It Ml still raise money,' the Special Assistant said!
Exasperated, the administrator then suggested an improvement. Pointing to Schanderl's picture, he said, "Why don't you
just stamp the word 'fired' on his forehead*'"
All this is by way of saying that the office of Special Assistant
to the President has by some estimates not been of the_utrnost
importance to the University. As a further indicatiorrof'this, the
office has remained open in the months since the man who last
occupied it departed. ' i
It comes as something of a surprise, then, that President Baxter has named Dr, William York, the chairman of the important
Executive Committee of the Academic Senate, to the Special Assistant's office.
CSUF is approaching a money crunch occasioned by declining .
enrollment and Coy. Brown's directive to slash 10 percent off
CSUC university budgets system-wide. This means that it is
very likely that layoffs are down the road-perhaps even for
some tenured faculty members. That's a nasty business, and
unless it's handled properly it will leave scars of resentment and
high-level animosities across the CSUF campus in its wake.
It's a bad time for President Baxter to be filling semi-necessary positions in the administration just for the sake of filling
them. The logicot the situation suggests that there maybearto-    .
ther reason for York's appointment.
Our guess is that York has been appointed Special Assistant
to thePresident so that Baxter cangroom him for the Vice-Pres'-
•iency, due to be vacated by Dr. Louis Volpp, who is "stepping
down' this August. * * J^p^ '^ttUr' •*®5
had two good belly laughs, and maybe
three chuckles.
Playing at Festival Cinemas. Rated
"PC-
PARADISE ALLEY-Sh/ Stallone's new
creation could almost be called 'Son of
Rocky * Jt' s about three brothers in the
1940's trying to succeed in the New
York slums. .
Instead of boxing, it's wrestling, and
instead of Rocky, it's King Salami,
The film was directed, written and
acted by Stallone. And as if to call it
completely his, the jack-of-aH-trades
also sings the title song.
Stallone portrays Cosmo, a man in
search of a gimmick. He finds it not in
himself, but in his muscular younger
brother,Victor.
The final wrestling scene Is too close
to the final boxing scene of 'Rocky' to
show real individuality. But the movie
shows that Stallone has still got what it
takes to please the audiences.
Playing at UA Cinema 4. Rated
'PCr.
IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN-
Despite claims of 'eroticism at its best'
andvsrealistlc love scenes,' this film
is the industry at its worst.
Tom Beringer. plays Ahdras, an
Hungarian who has a tendency to make
passes, sometimes successfully, at
older women. Karen Black with top
billing plays a very minor role, which is
less than convincing. And the 'realistic
love scenes' consist of three to four
minute interludes with little. If any,
foreplay. How unrealistic can you get?I
The movie does little to praise older
women, and in some instances degrades them. Though I wouldn't
recommend this movie to persons
under 16 years of age, I would also
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the story quite well. The cast includes .   states the only reason he does »
Susan Sarandon as Roberts' mother,  '
Judd Hirsch of t.v.'s Taxi' as the
father, and  Brooke  Shield's as his
Festival Cinemas. Rated
KING OF THE CYPSIES-There is a
new actor that we may see a lot more of
in the next few years. Erie Roberts
portrays the* grandson of the king of
the gypsies here in the United States
who is handed the responsibility after
his grandfather (Sterling Harden) dies.
Situated In today's society, the con-'
The movie is not up to par with
"Rocky" but it is entertaining, and the
photography is excellent. Cosmo finds
humor and a form of gallantry in the
Big Apple's Hell's,Kitchen that the
audience will find touching. -
Inter-varsity christian fellowship begins meetings
The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow-      of 'Individualism and the Christian."
ship (IVCF) will1 hold weekly meetings       . Beginning Feb. 8, meetings wiH.be
on Wednesdays from 1£to1 p.m. in the      held every other Thursday evening at
College Union", room 313. This Wed- •    7 p:m.; in the Pax De Chapel on- the
nesday's meeting will discuss the topic      cornerof Shaw and Jackson.
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Playing at Festival Cinemas. I
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